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Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months,... (more)
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind.... (more)
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The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
by Alvaro Mutis
Winner of the 2002 Neustadt Prize for World Literature, these seven novellas follow Maqroll's adventures and love affairs from Amazon jungles to Andean peaks. In a world threatened by violence and given over to dirty deals, Maqroll strives at all costs to preserve his honor and maintain his independence. "One of the greatest writers of our time." -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Basura
by Héctor Joaquín Abad Faciolince
Text: Spanish
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El olvido que seremos
by Héctor Joaquín Abad Faciolince
El olvido que seremos , como todas las obras maestras, es muchas cosas a la vez. (...) El libro es desgarrador pero no truculento, porque está escrito con una prosa que nunca se excede en la efusión del sentimiento: precisa, clara, inteligente, culta... Mario Vargas Llosa, El País, Madrid No sólo es una obra bella y profundamente conmovedora, no sólo es una necesaria lección sobre la educación cívica y la... (more)
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Veinticinco cuentos barranquilleros
Text: Spanish
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Cem anos de solidão
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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BUDA BLUES
by Mario Mendoza
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Good offices
by Evelio Rosero
Tancredo, a young hunchback, observes and participates in the goings-on at the church in which he lives under the care of Father Almida. Also in residence are the sexton Celeste Machado, his goddaughter Sabina Cruz, and three widows known collectively as the Lilias, who do the cooking and cleaning and provide charity meals for the local poor and needy. One Thursday, Father Almida and the sexton have to rush off to... (more)
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Segun la costumbre
by Gonzalo Mallarino Flórez
Según la costumbre recrea la atmósfera fría y melancólica de la Bogotá de finales del siglo XIX a través de una historia que nos lleva por los sórdidos escenarios de las casas de lenocinio y el apasionante universo de la medicina en su lucha por comprender al hombre y sus enfermedades.
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Leaf Storm
And Other Stories
by Gabriel García Márquez
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The Autumn of the Patriarch
by Gabriel García Márquez
One of Gabriel García Márquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly... (more)